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Use of Tissue Culture Methods to Improve Stress Tolerance in Plants

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New Frontiers in Plant-Environment Interactions

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Nowadays, climate change has become a worldwide concern as it affects global food production and security. Among the consequences of climate change are increasing abiotic constraints such as drought and salinity, and facilitating the invasion of pests and pathogens. Plant tissue culture would greatly help to mitigate climate change threats and foster biodiversity conservation. The major advances made in the field of plant micropropagation have played a key role in the rapid and large-scale production of stress-tolerant cultivars and constitute a powerful tool to develop stress-tolerant lines. In vitro mycorrhization is an interesting approach to improve tolerance to a variety of abiotic and biotic stresses while ensuring the mass production of plants. Tissue culture techniques would thus facilitate plant adaptation to an increasingly stressful environment. In the present chapter, the main achievements made in the field of plant micropropagation as a tool to produce stress-tolerant plants are presented and discussed. This includes the use of organogenesis for rapid and large-scale production of date palm plants resistant to bayoud disease and for palm grove rehabilitation, in vitro selection of abiotic stress-tolerant plants, morphological and physio-biochemical responses of plants to abiotic stresses under in vitro conditions, and the use of in vitro mycorrhization to improve stress-tolerance in plants.

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Mazri, M.A., Koufan, M., Rham, I., Radi, H., Belkoura, I. (2023). Use of Tissue Culture Methods to Improve Stress Tolerance in Plants. In: Aftab, T. (eds) New Frontiers in Plant-Environment Interactions. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43729-8_15

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